The Aces returned to glory, Kendrick Lamar amazed at Allegiant, the Arts District went off ... and that’s just the beginning ...

Decades before Beyoncé’s “Cowboy Carter” dominated the charts, another Black woman from Texas transcended genres with her hit country songs. Her name was Esther Phillips, and she was best known for ...

I really thought there'd be more consensus this year around the best songs and albums. But if you spend any time with all the different lists dropping everywhere, you'll find they're all over the ...

Our attention rapt, he was ready to commence with the bloodletting. Nobody was spared. The street rappers with no code. The moguls with no morals. And, most especially, the corporate vultures picking ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Piling on, stripping down, looking back, pushing ahead: Musicians found all sorts of uses for the album form this ...

The Korean pop outsider Effie and the Brooklyn indie-rock band Geese top our critics’ lists this year. By Jon Caramanica and Lindsay Zoladz Jon Caramanica Musicians know how to make music, and they ...

Penn State interim head coach Terry Smith is reportedly garnering support for a promotion. According to Pete Nakos of On3.com, "top-level Penn State donors are pushing" for athletic director Pat Kraft ...

U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon has two months to decide whether to lift her order blocking release of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s still-secret second report on President Donald Trump’s handling of ...

Drake was vibing to a snippet of a new song last night, which he previewed in Iceman episode 3. So will this track make it onto his Iceman album? In the early morning hours on Tuesday (Dec. 2), Drizzy ...

Flea has delivered the first preview of his upcoming solo album set to release in 2026 on Nonesuch Records. The Red Hot Chili Peppers founding bassist worked with a “dream band of modern jazz ...

The best albums of 2025 spanned seismic rage rap, intricate guitar music, protest folk, spacey dream pop, and laptop twee. A virtuoso of experimental electronic music re-emerged, a Brooklyn band ...

I joined Paste in 2023 and, in my tenure as editor, this year’s AOTY list is my favorite by far. The publication has been doling out these rankings since 2002, affixing an “Album of the Year” ribbon ...